Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This does not mean just to amuse him and let him do what he likes. But it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience.